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πŸ€”πŸ¦œ In a desperate attempt to sound profound, a #philosophy professor waffles on about "stochastic parrots" and the "lifeless word." Spoiler: nothing learned, just verbal acrobatics. πŸ™„πŸ“š
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The Word Made Lifeless

The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.

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